I am not going to add to the hype over this book, which is overpriced, $30, $22 at Amazon for prime buyers. That’s an outrageous price and we must suspect Klein, or her publishers are out to exploit her celebrity: this book is going to make a bundle at this price (itranks 340 or so already at Amazon).

I live on foodstamps and can’t afford this book, which will produce cheap second hand copies next year at Amazon resale. At that point I may buy the book. But this is the wrong way to go in a crisis.
I spent two years writing a book on this subject, plus a communist framework, and published the book for $79 at Lightning print (the software is not so cheap, but I got that free from a relative). $79! The result was the minimal cost, $7.95, with an absolute minimum unavoidable royalty per book, about 30 cents, and free PDF versions online. I refuse out of hand to buy an overpriced book by Klein, who should know better. At a time of crisis she should POD her book at the ten dollar level (depending on page numbers) and release a free PDF series. Nothing less is honest at this point.
To be fair, authors are caught up in publisher regimes and the chance of making a bundle off Klein crisis is too big a temptation for the publishing world vultures.

Klein’s book has an important feature, it seems, and I can distance from my negative mood to let the book do whatever good it can do (The Shock Doctrine was a seminal achievement). That feature is the sideline that the problem is at the level of capitalism itself. This indirect statement is so muffled by context as to be a waste of breath…or maybe not: maybe the idea will sink in, as per my Last and First Men, that this system as current is beyond repair.

In any case, I find little sense of solidarity or comradeship in this probably idiotic Sept 21 march. Hope I am wrong. And I am unwelcome, after writing a book on the subject, at any of these ‘leftist’ groupings. I failed to compromise on central issues, like communism, (climate change), evolutionary social darwinism, 9/11, and much else. All the celebrities get center stage because they package a few slogans/insights around self-censorship of key issues.
Compromise seems necessary at each stage, until the last when you strike out because you made all those compromises.
But I think Klein stands out slightly on just these grounds: but it won’t go far enough, we can bet.